i really appreciate your expressions of faith and your calm, rational demeanor amidst the heckling and baiting that often erupt on here.. some of you have been in the wt, others of you may not have even seen the inside of a kh.. my question, how do you maintain your sense of balance when things get really heated?.
i know prayer, meditation, and endurance are the hallmarks of being christian, but do you ever get tired of it all?.
please, i'm being very sincere here.. thanks to all.. sylvia.
No matter if
Christian
A believer or
An Unbeliever...........
Common courtesy and
kindness are always in order
Expressing ones views is very
different from browbeating,
berating, mocking, and in general
making fun in a personal attack
of anothers views
It's NOT a way to win friends
and influence people
i luvs you.. especially the newbies and chalam.. tee hee hee.. sylvia.
Sylvia
You made me sweat
for a minute
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!
greetings all:.
i just want to say howdy and thank you .
.
Welcome
Leo's my idol too!!
I went from knowing
to knowing nothing
From avoidance
to confrontation
With an unhealthy dose
on cognitave dissonance to boot
I have studied and learned more
this past year than I could have
ever believed
All this after leaving over 29 years ago
Past time lost but a new future gained
Pleased your here!!
Keep thinking
is there a true religion from gods standpoint?.
note to the speaker:.
standpoint.
Thanks OT
<shiver>
today at the meeting we were told by the co, that we got a gift three months ago!
the gift we got is the one more free evening weekly, because of the new meeting arrangement.
this gift was given to us by jehovah through faithfull an discreet slave.
Any "gift" given with conditions
is not a gift but a collar and a leash
meant to control and direct you
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestcrisis/idusisl330182.
couldn't of happened to a nicer bunch.. .
PFFFFFFFFT!!
Morons
they try to do everything else so absolutely correct and perfectly matching on that night.. jerusalem is shrouded in the soft light of dusk as the full moon rises over the mount of olives.
in a large furnished room, jesus and the 12 are reclining at a prepared table.
"i have greatly desired to eat this passover with you before i suffer," he says.
They wouldn't wash my feet.................
wouldn't let them
But....................
They can kiss my ass!!
the march 2009 american religious identification survey from trinity college and the march 7, 2009, national journal article on "rise of the godless" present the following data: .
when asked for their religious affiliation, 15 percent of americans say none, but only 0.7 percent say atheist ..... .
i present the above info just as a reminder that very, very few people consider themselves atheist despite decades of "scientific" propaganda suggesting otherwise.
Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha,
Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha,
Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha
.........................OH!!!!
You were Serious!!
....i am so frikkin obsessed about the jw lies and my newfound truths about them, and it is prob driving me crazy or causing depression.....if i wake up in the middle of the night, i never get back to sleep as my mind starts racing about jw crap and how it affects my marriage, and then how can i make this marriage work with her such a hardcore dub....i told my wife i now realize i am an abusive husband.....i must stop talking to her about the real truth!!
!..........it is killing her inside and we have had soooo many bad discussions that turn into arguments......on top of that she says she is now closer to jah and the org than at any other time in her life, that now that she has no positive direction from me, she relies totally on jehovah and prays to him more than ever..... we talked about separation, and that i was going to lose her over our religious differences........i feel so sorry for what i have put her through, and i know that if i can not really shut up with my ohsohelpful comments of truths about this truth she will leave me due to "spiritual endangerment".......and she said she is damm close to that happening.....i told her i knew it to and would so hate to lose her due to our religious differences.
at my recent shepherding call, they said to try and stop focusing on the negatives i have found in jw, and focus on the good things...and that is not a bad idea even if i never go back to meetings....there are good things about dubs....the efforts at ending racism and at least for me, some really good lifelong friends.......even their hope for the future was pretty good to me, even though it is a bunch of crap and i no longer believe the bible is gods word or inspired.....it does have some good suggestions for a happy life and ideas as to how to treat others........but so do just about every holy book of other faiths........ i had plans to start going to some meetings with my wife, but today, after a sleepless night i told her i just dont think i can do it, and just as she strongly believes it is the truth, i do not, and that i think the guys on the gb are not led by holy spirit cause if she will read the proclaimers book, she will see we have never gotten a single bible inerpretation of prophecy correct.......so she says "so what is there?
Oompa
Religion has destroyed...........
Families
Relationships
Individuals
Friendships
Pets
Farm Animals
from the beginning
Direct doctrinal engagement
will only kick in the cult mindset
I think the assesment of yourself
is correct (depression, dissonance,
booze, etc.)
Think before you speak!!!
Reconcile your own cult personality
before attempting to cure some other person
Do not be confrontational. IT WON'T WORK!!!
Hang in there
Can only speak for myself but
I'm pulling for you and wish you only
the best of luck
doesn't matter how hard i try i always end up with a bag of odd socks i can't for the life of me find their mates.
i suspect i might have gremlins in my washing machine..
Ghosts in the machines
